This edition presents texts that were until this day either completely
unpublished or published in an abridged form. Conceived and developed in
cooperation with the archives that preserve
them, this edition provides a digital access to the original manuscripts. The
editorial and scholarly work on the manuscripts is realized by the junior
research group "Berlin
intellectuals 1800-1830".

The junior research group led by Anne Baillot works on the
participation of scholars, writers both male and female, and publishers in
public life in Berlin around 1800: What forms does this kind of participation
take on? What significance does it have on a political, on a literary level?
The question of the strategies developed to communicate in that context is of
major importance. It is a goal of this edition to explore them.

Text Corpora

The texts edited here shed light on intellectual life in Berlin in the late
18th and early 19th century. They give insight on the genesis of German
Romantic Literature, but also into idea and culture transfers such as they can
be retraced in this politically and literary troubled period in the Prussian
capital city.

This edition is conceived to put at the core of the project the
relationships between the many intellectual circles that were at work in Berlin
around 1800: university, academies, societies, Salons, publishers, journals.
The users are welcome to use all the search
options developed to that aim.

News

November 2013: High-quality PDF files are now available for each
manuscript. Please select "Download PDF" when viewing any
manuscript.

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The first corpora edited since March 2012 are: 20 letters from Adolf von
Buch to Louis de Beausobre from the period 1759-1764 (in French), 23 letters
from Ludwig Tieck to Friedrich von Raumer from the period 1815-1830 (in
German), 12 letters from Adelbert von Chamisso to Louis de La Foye (1804-1812,
mostly German) Tieck's youth drama "Roxane" (1789/90, German) and the
original manuscript of E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann" (1815, German).

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of this edition, you are welcome to write to us in
French, German or English.